Snapper for inhaling devices



(No Model.)

J. H. HARPORD & W. W. REEVES.

SNAPPER FOR INHALING DEVICES.

No. 390,475. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

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PATENT JOHN H. HARFORD AND WVILLIAM WV. REEVES, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SNAPPER FOR INHALING DEVICES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,4:75, dated October 2, 1888.

Application filed February 3,1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN H. Hnnronn and WILLIAM W. Reeves, both of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have jointly invented a new and useful Snapper for Inhalers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to those instruments which enable the administration to the nasal passages or other part to be treated of a medicated dust or powder.

In the accompanyingdrawings,Figures land 2 are respectively a side and a front view of an instrument showing our improved snapping device.

A small part of the inclosingenvelopes is broken away in Fig. 1, in order to show the interior portions.

The desired quautu m of a suitable medicated powder, 1, is inclosed within an envelope, 2, of any suitable textile or porous fabric such as cotton in uslinso as to form a ball or sphere. The said ball is then enveloped in the external wrapper or bag, 3, also of any suitable porous fabric of sufiicientstrength and the proper degree of permeability, and which is tied tightly around the ball by a ligature, 4, of any proper fiber, such as linen thread or silk floss. The portion 5 of wrapper 3 which extends below the ligature 4 is capable of serving as a handle, whereby the instrument may be grasped by one hand, while percussion is applied by the other hand. The said instrument has attached to its ligatured portion a combined snapper and supplemental handle, which may have the following construction.

We take a piece of spring-wire, and having given its middle portion the cross-like form, so as to form our snapper or knocker 6 and helical springs 7, the said wire is then bent Serial No.226,-i25. (No model.)

tightly around, so as to firmly inclasp the neck or ligatured portion of the bag, forming arms, as at 8, and, being tightly twisted together on the other side of the bag, forms a handle, 9, which, being grasped along with the depending portion or skirt 5 by one hand of the op erator, and the snapper Ghaving been first retracted, as represented in Fig. 1, and then suddenly released, its impact against the bag causes escape of aportion of the contents in the form of a smoke-like cloud in condition to be easily inhaled by the patient, and by its extreme levity and the numerousness and minuten'ess of its particles to find its way to every recess of the nasal cavities.

The above-described form. of our said instru meut may be varied in certain of its details. For example, the medicated powder may be inclosed in a single bag, from which the de scribed interior casing is omitted.

We claim as new and of our invention- The combination of a ligatured ball or bag ofporous material or fabric charged with medicated powder, and a combined snapping device and handle consisting of a piece of wire bent intermediately of its ends to the form of a suitable snapper, helical springs formed therein, such wire being inelasped around the ligatured portion of the bag, and the ends finally twisted together on the opposite side of the bag to form a handle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of which invention. we here unto set our hands.

JOHN H. HARFORD. WILLIAM WV. REEVES. Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. S. CARPENTER. 

